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Strong's G3543 νομίζω (nomizo)

Nomizo means “suppose” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H3543 — kahah (“be weak”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G3543
Language Greek
Linked Usages 30
Books 9

Strong's G3543 Quick Answer

Strong's G3543 νομίζω (nomizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. nomizo (nom-id'-zo) v. 1. (properly) to do by law 2. (commonly) to accustom, to make a habit or practice It has 30 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include law and do. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
nomizo (nom-id'-zo) v. 1. (properly) to do by law 2. (commonly) to accustom, to make a habit or practice
Usage
30 linked usages
Books
9 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
law and do

Meaning and Definition

nomizo (nom-id'-zo) v. 1. (properly) to do by law 2. (commonly) to accustom, to make a habit or practice 3. (passively) to be usual, to be a habit 4. (by extension) to deem or regard [from G3551] KJV: suppose, thing, be wont Root(s): G3551

Original Word
νομίζω
Transliteration
nomizo
Derivation
Root: νόμος R1: 3551
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3543. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to think

Usage: νομίζω (νόμος), [in LXX: Wis.13:2 17:3, Sir.29:4, 1-28; 2Ma.4:1-50, 4Ma.8:1-29 * ;] __1. to practise, hold by custom: Act.16:13 (Rec., but see infr.). __2. to deem, consider, suppose: Mat.5:17 10:34 20:10, Luk.2:44 3:23, Act.7:25 8:20 14:19 16:13, 27 17:29 21:29, 1Co.7:26 7:36, 1Ti.6:5.† SYN.: ἡγέομαι, q.v (AS)

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How Strong's G3543 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render nomizo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

How Strong's G3543 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is New Testament with 15 linked usages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G3543 (νομίζω) appears 15 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G3543 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G3543 in the New Testament

15 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 5:17 KJV

Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matthew 10:34 KJV

Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Matthew 20:10 KJV

But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.

Strong's G3543 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

2 Maccabees 4:32 Septuagint / Brenton

Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a convenient time, stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple, and gave some of them to Andronicus, and some he sold into Tyre and the cities round about.

2 Maccabees 7:19 Septuagint / Brenton

But think not thou, that takest in hand to strive against God, that thou shall escape unpunished.

2 Maccabees 8:35 Septuagint / Brenton

he was through the help of the Lord brought down by them, of whom he made least account; and putting off his glorious apparel, and discharging his company, he came like a fugitive servant through the midland unto Antioch, having very great dishonor, for that his host was destroyed.

Usage Excerpts

First 30 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3543.

Matthew 5:17 New Testament, KJV
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
Matthew 10:34 New Testament, KJV
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
Matthew 20:10 New Testament, KJV
But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.
Luke 2:44 New Testament, KJV
But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day's journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.
Luke 3:23 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
Acts 7:25 New Testament, KJV
For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them: but they understood not.
Acts 8:20 New Testament, KJV
But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.
Acts 14:19 New Testament, KJV
And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
Acts 16:13 New Testament, KJV
And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
Acts 16:27 New Testament, KJV
And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
Acts 17:29 New Testament, KJV
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Acts 21:29 New Testament, KJV
(For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.)
1 Corinthians 7:26 New Testament, KJV
I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.
1 Corinthians 7:36 New Testament, KJV
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
1 Timothy 6:5 New Testament, KJV
Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.
2 Maccabees 4:32 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now Menelaus, supposing that he had gotten a convenient time, stole certain vessels of gold out of the temple, and gave some of them to Andronicus, and some he sold into Tyre and the cities round about.
2 Maccabees 7:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But think not thou, that takest in hand to strive against God, that thou shall escape unpunished.
2 Maccabees 8:35 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
he was through the help of the Lord brought down by them, of whom he made least account; and putting off his glorious apparel, and discharging his company, he came like a fugitive servant through the midland unto Antioch, having very great dishonor, for that his host was destroyed.
2 Maccabees 14:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
came to King Demetrius in the hundred and one and fiftieth year, presenting unto him a crown of gold, and a palm, and also of the boughs which were used solemnly in the temple: and so that day he held his peace.
4 Maccabees 2:14 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
It alloweth not to cut down the cultivated herbage of an enemy, but preserveth it from the destroyers, and collecteth their fallen ruins.
4 Maccabees 4:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And the nation, indignant at this proclamation, and replying to the effect that it was extremely unfair that those who had committed deposits to the sacred treasury should be deprived of them, resisted as well as they could.
4 Maccabees 4:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Onias the high priest, induced by these words, although for other reasons anxious that King Seleucus should not suppose that Apollonius was slain by human device and not by Divine punishment, prayed for him;
4 Maccabees 5:16 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
We, O Antiochus, who are persuaded that we live under a divine law, consider no compulsion to be so forcible as obedience to that law;
4 Maccabees 5:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
And indeed, were our law (as you suppose) not truly divine, and if we wrongly think it divine, we should have no right even in that case to destroy our sense of religion.
4 Maccabees 5:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Think not eating the unclean, then, a trifling offense.
4 Maccabees 9:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For we account your pity of us on the terms of unlawful escape to be worse than death.
4 Maccabees 9:7 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Make the attempt, then, O tyrant; and if thou puttest us to death for our religion, think not that thou harmest us by torturing us.
Wisdom of Solomon 13:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, Or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, Or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.
Wisdom of Solomon 17:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For while they supposed to lie hidden in their secret sins, They were scattered under a dark veil of forgetfulness, Being horribly astonished, And troubled with strange apparitions.
Wisdom of Sirach 29:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, And put them to trouble that helped them.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3543, grouped by book.

Matthew 3 usages, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
Acts 7 usages, New Testament
1 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
1 Timothy 1 usage, New Testament
2 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 8 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G3543 FAQ

What does nomizo (νομίζω) mean?

Nomizo (Strong's G3543) is a Greek word most simply glossed "suppose". nomizo (nom-id'-zo) v. 1. (properly) to do by law 2. (commonly) to accustom, to make a habit or practice

How many times is nomizo (νομίζω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 30 linked usages for Strong's G3543 across 9 books.

Where can I study nomizo (νομίζω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3543 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate nomizo (νομίζω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as law and do. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G3543 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3543, with linked reader references where each row is available.